May 15th, 1619

Born on May 15th, 1619

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 147,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 94 days, exactly on July 30th, 2024, people who were born on May 15th, 1619 will be 148,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on May 15th?

May 15th, 2010

Three days before her seventeenth birthday, Jessica Watson arrived in Sydney after sailing non-stop and unassisted around the world.

May 15th, 2004

Arsenal became the first football team in England's top flight to finish a season undefeated since Preston North End did so in 1888–1889.

May 15th, 1990

Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold at auction at Christie's in New York for US$82.5 million, making it the world's most expensive painting at the time.

May 15th, 1972

The Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan by the United States, and the U.S. occupation government was abolished.

May 15th, 1966

Disapproving of General Tôn Thất Đính's handling of the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ ordered an attack on his forces and ousted Đính from his post.

May 15th, 1957

The United Kingdom tested its first hydrogen bomb over Malden Island in Operation Grapple.

May 15th, 1953

Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, an event for Cub Scouts of the Boy Scouts of America where wooden cars built by the scouts are raced.

May 15th, 1945

The British Army directed fleeing Croatian soldiers to surrender to the Yugoslav Partisans, beginning the Bleiburg repatriations.

May 15th, 1916

Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas.

May 15th, 1911

Mexican Revolution: A force of Maderistas captured Torreón and proceeded to massacre 303 of the city's Chinese residents.

May 15th, 1904

Russo-Japanese War: The Japanese battleships Hatsuse and Yashima sank after striking several mines off Port Arthur, China.

May 15th, 1869

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, breaking away from the American Equal Rights Association which they had also previously founded.

May 15th, 1864

American Civil War: A small Confederate force, which included cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, forced the Union Army out of the Shenandoah Valley.

May 15th, 1855

Thieves stole 224 pounds (102 kg) of gold from a train travelling from London to Folkestone, England.

May 15th, 1836

English astronomer Francis Baily observed Baily's beads (example pictured), a phenomenon during a solar eclipse in which the rugged topography of the lunar limb allows sunlight to shine through.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 15th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on May 15th?

58

Martin Sonneborn

German satirist, journalist and politician

*May 15th, 1965, Göttingen

64

Andrew Eldritch

British singer

*May 15th, 1959, Ely

28

Victoria Williams

Badminton player

*May 15th, 1995, Sheffield

46

Pierre Curie

French physicist (1859-1906)

*May 15th, 1859, Paris †April 19th, 1906, Paris

53

Mika Vainio

Finnish electronic musician

*May 15th, 1963, Helsinki †April 12th, 2017, Trouville-sur-Mer

23

Carolina Ponce

Argentinian Beach handball player

*May 15th, 2000, Ensenada

23

Caterina Benedetti

Argentinian handball player

*May 15th, 2000, Buenos Aires

33

Sannatasah Saniru

Malaysian badminton player

*May 15th, 1990, Sabah

25

Sun Feixiang

Chinese badminton player

*May 15th, 1998, Yichang

60

Grete Mogensen

Badminton player

*May 15th, 1963, Skive

28

Yu Igarashi

Japanese badminton player

*May 15th, 1995, Yamagata Prefecture

26

Ousmane Dembélé

French footballer

*May 15th, 1997, Vernon

78

Inga Ålenius

Swedish actress (1938-2017)

*May 15th, 1938, Stockholm †April 24th, 2017, Helsingborg

76

Claudio Monteverdi

Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest (1567–1643)

*May 15th, 1567, Cremona †November 29th, 1643, Venice

26

Fachryza Abimanyu

Badminton player

*May 15th, 1997, Jakarta

75

Brian Eno

British musician, music producer, music theorist and visual artist (born 1948)

*May 15th, 1948, Melton

76

Wilhelm von Opel

Member of the German Opel family

*May 15th, 1871, Rüsselsheim am Main †May 2nd, 1948, Wiesbaden

41

Layal Abboud

Lebanese pop singer

*May 15th, 1982, Kniseh, Tyre

81

Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs

German chemist and mineralogist (1774-1856)

*May 15th, 1774, Bavarian Forest †March 5th, 1856, Munich

41

Alexandra Breckenridge

American actress

*May 15th, 1982, Bridgeport

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64

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

French statesman (1619-1683)

*August 29th, 1619, Reims †September 6th, 1683, Paris

36

Cyrano de Bergerac

French novelist and dramatist (1619–1655)

*March 6th, 1619, Paris †July 28th, 1655, Sannois

68

Antoine Furetière

French writer and scholar (1619-1688)

*December 28th, 1619, Paris †May 14th, 1688, Paris

50

Jan Victors

Dutch painter (1619–1676)

*June 13th, 1619, Amsterdam †November 30th, 1669, Dutch East Indies

70

Johann Peter Titz

German educationist and poet (1619-1689)

*January 10th, 1619, Legnica †September 7th, 1689, Gdańsk

59

Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon

Duchess of Longueville (1619-1679)

*August 28th, 1619, Château de Vincennes †April 5th, 1679, Paris

70

Charles Le Brun

17th-century French painter and art theorist (1619—1690)

*February 24th, 1619, Paris †February 22nd, 1690, Paris

72

Wang Fuzhi

Chinese essayist, historian and philosopher (1619–1692)

*October 7th, 1619, Hengyang †February 18th, 1692

62

Prince Rupert of the Rhine

German prince, royalist general and admiral (1619-1682)

*December 17th, 1619, Prague †November 29th, 1682, Westminster

57

Jan van Riebeeck

Dutch colonial governor (1619–1677)

*April 21st, 1619, Culemborg †January 18th, 1677, Batavia

80

Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg

German princess (1619-1680)

*October 10th, 1619, Bavarian †December 20th, 1699, Gotha

52

Iacopo Antonio Fancelli

Italian sculptor (1606-1674)

*January 1st, 1619, Rome †January 1st, 1671, Rome

64

John Lambert

English Parliamentary general and politician (1619-1683)

*September 7th, 1619, Kirkby Malham †March 1st, 1684, Plymouth Sound

61

Anna Sophia I, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Dutch abbess (1619-1680)

*April 2nd, 1619, Birkenfeld †September 1st, 1680, Quedlinburg

69

Marcantonio Giustinian

Doge of Venice

*March 2nd, 1619, Venice †March 23rd, 1688, Venice

58

Anders Bording

Danish poet and journalist

*January 21st, 1619, Ribe †May 24th, 1677, Copenhagen

74

Francesco Morosini

Doge of Venice (1619–1694)

*February 26th, 1619, Venice †January 16th, 1694, Nauplion

27

Francesco Maria Farnese

Italian cardinal (1619-1647)

*August 8th, 1619, Parma †July 12th, 1647, Parma

78

Pedro Abarca

Jesuit theologian

*July 16th, 1619, Jaca †August 23rd, 1697, Palencia

61

Frederick Louis

Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg (1619-1681)

*October 27th, 1619, Heidelberg †April 11th, 1681, Obermoschel

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1619 is a normal year and no leap year.

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